THE JUNGLE AT SCHOOL
Sir,-I can understand and sympathise with "T.A.B.’s" divided attitude towards the BBC Forenoon, But as both he and your guest critic "A.R." imply that no self-respecting teacher can shed professional solemnity for long enough to be amused by Gwyn Thomas’s sati-rico-comic picture of secondary school life, I may be allowed to indicate that one reason why I enjoyed the progTamme so much was that, in my time, I have taught severa] Fanshawes, and shared common-rooms with some of Mr. Thomas’s more eccentric masters. And, in the same connection, it is perhaps not irrelevant to point out (since apparently the fact is unknown to both "AR." and "T.A.B.") that Gwyn Thomas himself has been, for the past 13 years, a language master at the Barry County Grammar Schoo] in Wales.
J.C.
R.
(Auckland).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 762, 26 February 1954, Page 5
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136THE JUNGLE AT SCHOOL New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 762, 26 February 1954, Page 5
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